Lust Or True Love: Business, Universities & Artificial Intelligence

A drone flies outside the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Kresge Auditorium during the 2018 Solve conference. The project connects tech entrepreneurs with leaders in government, business and academia to tackle world problems. MIT's recent billion-dollar commitment to its new AI-focused school, the Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing, represents an essential advance, not for its magnitude but for its plans to infect the rest of the university with AI. Announced earlier this month, MIT's new school's mission includes engaging across MIT to explore how AI might impact research across fields from engineering and social sciences to the humanities. MIT's president, Rafael Reif, explained the purpose of the school is to "educate bilinguals of the future."